The nature of harm—and therefore moral judgment—may be misunderstood. Rather than an
objective matter of reason, we argue that harm should be redefined as an intuitively …

A culpable control model is advanced to describe the conditions that encourage as well as
mitigate blame and to assess the process by which blame and mitigation occur. The …

Decision scientists have identified various plausible sources of ideological polarization over
climate change, gun violence, national security, and like issues that turn on empirical …

We introduce a theory of blame in five parts. Part 1 addresses what blame is: a unique moral
judgment that is both cognitive and social, regulates social behavior, fundamentally relies on …

This Article addresses the stakes of the ongoing fight over competing versions of US history
for our understanding of law, with a special focus on property law. Insofar as legal …

Both normative theories of ethics in philosophy and contemporary models of moral judgment
in psychology have focused almost exclusively on the permissibility of acts, in particular …

Mind perception entails ascribing mental capacities to other entities, whereas moral
judgment entails labeling entities as good or bad or actions as right or wrong. We suggest …

Moral psychology is a rapidly growing field with two principle lineages. The main line began
with Jean Piaget and includes developmental psychologists who have studied the …

When something is wrong, someone is harmed. This hypothesis derives from the theory of
dyadic morality, which suggests a moral cognitive template of wrongdoing agent and …

Theories that reject the existence of altruism presume that emotional benefits serve as
ulterior motives for doing good deeds. These theories argue that even in the absence of …